2023 Performances Archive

Join up-and-coming artists and creators to celebrate and preview their work—all made by the creative community at The New York Public Library’s Studio40!

Studio40 is a free creative space and recording studio located in the Pasculano Learning Center at NYPL’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) in midtown Manhattan. Outfitted with state-of-the-art media equipment and software, Studio40 is open to the public as part of the Library’s free TechConnect service, which offers no-cost resources, classes, workshops, and events.

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The Studio40 Showcase will begin at 6 PM with a special panel discussion featuring advice for emerging artists in New York City and will feature Bronx-based hip-hop artist Mickey Factz and Sirius XM’s Gray Rizzy.
After the panel discussion, artists and creators from NYPL’s Studio40 will share their work—either in a completed form or as works-in-progress—as live performances, music, video, podcast excerpts, and a sound and video gallery.

Come discover local up-and-coming NYC artists and be inspired by folks at all stages of their creative careers!

This showcase is taking place with the kind support of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) in celebration of New York Music Month (NYMM).

300 Entertainment is honored to celebrate Hip Hp 50 as part of NY Music Month. In this episode, 300U presents one of Brooklyn’s rising stars Narsie as he performs some of his street buzzing tracks like “GOTW live with the 300U Band.

KIDS ROCK FOR KIDS is honored to be part of New York Music Month and Make Music New York!

Kids Rock For Kids is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization which enables exceptionally talented and passionate teen musicians from around the world to rock out while raising money for youth-related causes, locally and globally. Helping the next generation help the world.

8 incredible teen bands from NYC and Long Island will rock Brooklyn!

The storied downtown jazz label Blue Note will bring together multiple generations of jazz innovators in Central Park. Headlining is bassist, composer, and jazz fusion pioneer Stanley Clarke with his 4Ever band, renowned for his unique percussive electric bass playing style; the five-time GRAMMY winner was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 2022. GRAMMY winner Kenny Garrett is a post-bop saxophonist, flutist, and composer who cut his teeth as a youth in the Duke Ellington Orchestra and shined as a member of Miles Davis’ band in the late 80s-early 90s; he too, is a newly minted NEA Jazz Master. Brandee Younger is arguably contemporary jazz’s most formidable harpist. The GRAMMY-nominated composer, curator, and NYU professor seamlessly injects the harp into arrangements and venues where it has historically been overlooked. They’re supported by DJ Logic, a Bronx-born nu-jazz turntablist.

This show will feature a special performance in collaboration with Works & Process. As part of this partnership, this season at SummerStage Ladies of Hip-Hop will perform at various shows. Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective (LDC) is an all-female intergenerational dance collective that creates dance works illuminating the strength, power and diversity of women in Hip-Hop.

Part showcase, part variety show, part music networking event, The Hang: Live is the stage debut for a growing community of former students of recording artist, author, and songwriting professor Mike Errico. This community is represented in all aspects of the music industry. You could listen to them on Spotify, or follow them on Instagram, and now you can meet them live.  Join us for an evening of shared songs, stories, and advice for the next generation of music professionals. Two sets, with breaks to, well, hang.